Gerrymandering state and folks in the republican district are happy that members oppose impeachment and democrats are happy their members are for it. I think the most interesting places to watch our north dallas and west houston. These are the two extremely competitive zones held by democrats, and they are part of that big wave of freshmen who came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. Neither member seems to be backing off of it, and they are comfortable where they are. Host we hear that there are a number of retiring texas house members. We will put their names on the screen, but several republican retirements. What is the impact going to be of all of those folks leaving the house representing texas . Guest well, i think it could go good and bad for the state. For someone who has watched this delegation a long time, particularly on the republican side, this is an extremely powerful block within the. Epublican Conference Many of these members in the house are leaving. Ranking member
Emily cochrane is a congressional report for the new york times. She joins us by phone. She talks about impeachment and other issues. Good morning, emily. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host we will put your article up, which we looked at briefly, and it says this, new york democrats balance impeachment issue with local concerns. Tell us about this impeachment issue. Est so i went to three town halls last week. All three representatives of eventually came out for impeachment, the impeachment inquiry, one of them actually at that town hall. Sort ofe preempted any questions at the town hall with their own explanation of what the inquiry , where they stood, and opened the floor for questions, and for the most part, voters seemed satisfied with that explanation and instead wanted concerns,hem on local climate change, their personal policy platforms, and how that was going to get done moving forward. Host we featured anthony brindisi, one of the eight democrats who does not su
West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te
For a navy s. E. A. L. An update on Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well. She has been hospitalized this weekend. Former congressman david jolly, msnbc contributor, and hayes brown, Senior Editor and reporter from Buzzfeed News and host of podcast impeachment today, which i recommend to everybody. And former federal prosecutor, special counsel to the Senate Committee on the judiciary. I will start with that news about devin nunes who seems to be close to the center of that story the committee has been investigating. It sounds like congressman nunes could face another ethics investigation into a meeting he reportedly had with the ukrainian prosecutor in which he discussed investigation into the bidens. Do you believe that this should be a matter for an ethics investigation for mr. Nunes. Quite likely, without question. Details of the secret meeting surfaced with one of Rudy Giulianis associates was prosecuted. Congressman declined to comment to nbc news and threatened to sue two other news organ